If you only compute one derived figure per account, make it load factor. Consumption divided by billed demand times hours in the period. It takes one column in a spreadsheet and it tells you more about where the money is than anything else on the bill.
What the ranges mean in practice.
Above roughly sixty percent, the account is running steadily and demand is doing what it should. Your opportunities are in rate and supply, not in load.
Between forty and sixty, normal for most commercial accounts. Worth watching the trend rather than the level.
Below forty, something is setting a peak the account is not sustaining. That is where demand-side money lives, and it is often correctable.
The trend matters more than the level. A load factor falling over two years means demand is growing faster than the energy supporting it, which means the account is paying more for the same consumption. I look at the first twelve cycles against the second twelve and compare the growth rates directly. Consumption up three percent with demand up ten percent is a real problem and it will not show up in a total-dollars comparison.
Then compare across accounts. Two meters on the same tariff with the same supplier, one at sixty percent and one at thirty-seven, will show a large gap in cost per kilowatt-hour, and the entire gap is load shape.
What the ranges mean in practice.
Above roughly sixty percent, the account is running steadily and demand is doing what it should. Your opportunities are in rate and supply, not in load.
Between forty and sixty, normal for most commercial accounts. Worth watching the trend rather than the level.
Below forty, something is setting a peak the account is not sustaining. That is where demand-side money lives, and it is often correctable.
The trend matters more than the level. A load factor falling over two years means demand is growing faster than the energy supporting it, which means the account is paying more for the same consumption. I look at the first twelve cycles against the second twelve and compare the growth rates directly. Consumption up three percent with demand up ten percent is a real problem and it will not show up in a total-dollars comparison.
Then compare across accounts. Two meters on the same tariff with the same supplier, one at sixty percent and one at thirty-seven, will show a large gap in cost per kilowatt-hour, and the entire gap is load shape.